There is a current attempt to alter the translation from the Greek of Revelation 20:15, because the passage does not state (according to the King James translation) that all will be condemned at this judgment. The wording of the verse in the Authorized Version does not support Christian doctrine and so an effort is being made to somehow change the translation so it will correspond to current doctrine.

The Christian stance concerning the Divine redemption is unscriptural. It is the product of deductive reasoning. It goes against direct statements of the Scripture. It proceeds from the mind of man, not from the Spirit of God.

When we come to God through Christ, God saves us. He does not save us because we are righteous or unrighteous. God saves us on the condition of receiving by faith His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Then we are to be baptized in water, according to the commandment of God.

After we are saved the Good Shepherd begins to lead us in paths of righteousness for His name's sake. God saves us so we may practice righteous behavior and enter life.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)

If we do not begin to practice good works, salvation is not progressing in us. We are not entering life with God.

Apart from righteous, holy, and obedient behavior, there is no Kingdom of God.

Divine grace does not affect the final judgment of the individual. Divine grace operates at the point of accepting Christ, not at the time of our being revealed before the Judgment Seat of Christ. Search the Scriptures and see if grace will operate when we stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ.

It may be true that God will extend mercy to some individual at the Judgment Seat of Christ, but mercy and grace are two different Divine gifts. Divine grace is the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus is a Person but much more than a Person. The Lord Jesus is the Expression of God such that all that we need to change from Adam to Christ is contained in Him.

The Lord Jesus Christ Himself is our salvation, our righteousness, our holiness, our strength, our joy, our wisdom, our eternal life, our resurrection, our faith, our health. As we receive Him into our personality we receive all that God Is—all we ever shall need to be completely joyful and fulfilled throughout eternity.

Mercy, on the other hand, is shown wholly at Christ's discretion as He decides whom He will cast off and whom He will receive.

The problem is, we Christians are assuming that grace (which we conceive of only as forgiveness) will operate at the Judgment Seat of Christ so that all who profess belief in Jesus will be received into Paradise at physical death. This is not scriptural either in its means or its goal.

Divine grace (meaning forgiveness plus all of the Virtue of God required to totally transform us) operates now—today—in our life so we can approach God and learn to serve Him. Apart from the grace of God in Christ we could not pass though the veil, coming boldly before God's throne in order to obtain mercy and grace to help us in our battle against sin (Hebrews 4:16).

At the Judgment Seat of Christ, all people—Christians and non-Christians alike—shall be judged and rewarded on the basis of their works. Mercy may be shown to some; but grace, in the sense of imputed (ascribed) righteousness, will not enter at this point.

To be continued.